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Plan of proposed residence

Early plan for the house. An article in the Whig Standard gives a very romantic story which does not bear scrutiny, attributing the design of the house to an American architect named Stanford Warrington who married Helen Bernice Young. The source for this misconception is unknown. Mr. Young was the county clerk, and apparently a lawyer of some stature, Who died c. 1936. The design is related to the H.A.C.Taylor house by McKim, Mead and White (1885-86, Newport, R.I.), through a derivation published in a loose portfolio of coloured plates by John W. Masury and Co. c.1910, which in turn is probably reproduced from another source.

Plan of the house more or less as built, although it was reduced still further, as indicated by pencilled alterations. Elevations also provided

Rough drawing of second stage of the design, in which most of the principle elements of the final design are present

Detail sheet of stair, etc.

Brick house with bay windows rising through 2 storeys, small attic windows above, double door, side bay entrance with Victorian porch. Reid's handwriting appears on the drawing

Plans of waiting room and freight sheds

End elevations and attic plan of the hotel

Elevations of the hotel. At this point little is known, except that during the month of August, 1892, J.C. Wilson was going to build the hotel. No mention of a hotel on the site was made in a brochure published by the Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte Steamboat Co. Ltd. for excursions along the Bay of Quinte Route in 1905. Neither is it mentioned in Picton's 100 Years (Picton Gazette, 1937).

The fonds consists of nearly 1200 drawings, blueprints, and specifications spanning the career of Kingston architect William Newlands, from 1882 until his death in 1926. The subject matter of most of the material is specific to Kingston and all facets of enterprise in Kingston are represented - dwellings, businesses, schools, hospitals, churches, charitable institutions and government institutions.